"If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it."

-- Anton du Beke

“Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.”
“I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.”
“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.”
“People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.”
“Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.”
“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.”
“It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.”
“You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.”

Source : "The Thought Gang". Book by Tibor Fischer, 1994.

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